In a remote boarding school in the Anatolian mountains, where Turkish teachers instruct talented Kurdish pupils from the surrounding area, strict order prevails. The boys are allowed to shower only once a week, and even this act is carefully monitored. One cold winter night, twelve-year-old Memo asks his friend Yusuf to sleep in his bed, but Yusuf, worried about possible rumors, refuses.
In a remote boarding school in the Anatolian mountains, where Turkish teachers instruct talented Kurdish pupils from the surrounding area, strict order prevails. The boys are allowed to shower only once a week, and even this act is carefully monitored. One cold winter night, twelve-year-old Memo asks his friend Yusuf to sleep in his bed, but Yusuf, worried about possible rumors, refuses.
